In another development, an Israeli man used a shopping cart to fend off attackers who already had stabbed two women:

“It was scary,” acknowledged Mordechai Shalem, in a television interview soon after the attack at the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon.

“You see two people facing you with their knives raised. I saw the hatred in their eyes, the anger. I knew I had to stop them from getting in,” he said.

Two Israeli women were stabbed and injured in the attack, one critically. The terrorists then tried to enter the store, were blocked by Shalem, fled, and were killed by a security guard after a short chase, police said.

And thus the latest Palestinian failure. Back when the world was young Arafat invented terror theater for Western audiences. Hijackings, a few executions, mass casualty attacks in Israel, Paris or Vienna was enough to grab attention from the emerging transnational class and solidify his leadership position in The Cause. It came at a price but for a generation, the swindle worked: The West Banks’ Five Families grew rich and the Palestinians were spun as just another secular national liberation outfit.

By my count he duped at least two generations of less than astute Western elites into believing that the Izzy-Pally “dispute” was the key to regional peace.

Then, le deluge. AQ, OIF, OEF, ISIS and the collapse of Sykes-Picot and the truth, no longer shackled by faux nationalism or Cold War restraints, emerged: the key to peace is that there ain’t no key, and the real fissure runs along Sunnis and Shia.

At last, Izzy-Pally has been decentered and returned to its real proportions—just a minor branch office of the Islam Project. And the Pallys haven’t quite got used to that. But they’re going to have to because it’s in nobody’s interest to back one more failed state in a toxic sandbox full of them.